Interview by InterSearch Germany ISEC with Grete Christoffersen, InterSearch Norway

First the oil crisis, and later the pandemic: the economic landscape in Norway has experienced some drastic changes in recent years. Traditionally, the oil and gas industry has dominated the market, but there is a noticeable shift towards renewable energy, says Grete Christoffersen, CEO of InterSearch Norway in Stavanger.

Eric Spell joined Charles Aris Executive Search as a practice leader last December, bringing along decades of experience in the recruiting and agricultural space.

Predictions and trends for the industry by Yulia Zabazarnykh, Global Leader of Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice Group at InterSearch Worldwide.

Smart glasses, machine learning, artificial intelligence – that is what the future of logistics looks like. But as much as the digital transformation of the industry is progressing, there is still a lot of catching up to do in the area of HR.

EVs have become the most significant addition to the electric load since the rise of air conditioning in the 1950s. It’s taken a long, long time for electric vehicles to gain acceptance in the minds of the public or consumers, and a lot of that is probably down to the industry’s reluctance to build the infrastructure, while also governments may have been too beholden to big oil in the past.

The corona pandemic has changed the shopping behavior of Germans – for both non-food and food. You shop more online, pay less often in cash and you like to have everything delivered to your home – this is how the trends can be summarized. But despite this change accelerated by the pandemic, Germany is lagging behind compared to other European countries, as Heinz Leopold, client partner at InterSearch Executive Consultants GmbH in Hamburg, explains.

A quick overview for those looking forward to it – by the InterSearch Worldwide Automotive Practice Group